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July 6, 2023By Brian
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC The CrossFit Games have moved locations a couple times during their history. We’ve broken down the history of the Games into different eras based on location. We started with the “Ranch Era”, and if you haven’t seen our top ten rankings for men and women
July 5, 2023By Barclay Dale
Written by Barclay Dale Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye We are less than a month away from the CrossFit Games which means people are starting to wonder: what will we see programmed at the Games this year? This analysis of the programming will not dive into predicting the specific movements that will show up at the Games
June 30, 2023By Brian
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Continuing our countdown of the top male athletes who competed at the CrossFit Games during the “Carson Era” (2010-2016). We round out the countdown today with the top five men from that era. 5. Josh Bridges “Nobody in the Crossfit world defines the word ‘icon’
June 29, 2023By Brian
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Continuing our countdown of the top male athletes who competed at the CrossFit Games during the “Carson Era” (2010-2016). Today we start with 15 and will work our way down to six. 15. Noah Ohlsen “Ohlsen made himself relevant and known from his first season
June 28, 2023By Brian
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC If you have not seen our “Ranch Era” top tens, be sure to check them out: Moving to the second location for the CrossFit Games, we have Carson, California where the “Fittest on Earth” gathered every summer from 2010 until 2016. The “Ranch Era” was
June 26, 2023By Brian
**Contributions by Barclay Dale, Brian Friend, and Mike Halpin** Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye If you missed part one of this two part series you can find it here. This two-part series is a collection of findings we’ve observed after filtering through cross-semifinal leaderboards for a couple weeks. We acknowledged certain disclaimers in part one about what
June 26, 2023By Brian
Image Credit: CrossFit LLC Every year at the CrossFit Games a new class of athletes show up and test themselves against the most difficult test and most robust field of competitors in the world. And every year, a group amongst them does rather well. With an exciting field of rookies making their debut once again this
June 23, 2023By Brian
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC This is the second in a series of articles that selects the best CrossFit Games athletes by era – with the era being determined by the location of the Games. The first era is “The Ranch Era”, consisting of the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 when the Games took place at Dave
June 22, 2023By Brian
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC This will be the first in a series of articles that selects the best CrossFit Games athletes by era- with the era being determined by the location of the Games. Therefore the first era is “The Ranch Era”, consisting of the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 when the Games took place
June 21, 2023By Brian
Contributions by Barclay Dale, Brian Friend and Mike Halpin One of the big changes to the 2023 season was the re-introduction of uniform programming for the final qualifying stage to the CrossFit Games (Semifinals) for both elite individuals and teams. One of the most appealing things about standardized programming is the ability to compare athletes
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